West Village

Neighborhood · Manhattan

The West Village, the western part of Greenwich Village between the Hudson River and 14th Street, includes the Meatpacking District, where the High Line starts at Gansevoort Street and the Whitney Museum of American Art moved in 2015.

  • 0.52 square miles
  • 35,011 residents, 2020 Census
  • 162 street corners
  • 5 subway stations
  • 22 bus routes

Many of its streets were laid out in the 18th century, before the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, so they sit at an angle to the grid, and West 4th Street crosses West 10th, 11th and 12th Streets. The Stonewall uprising of June 28, 1969, a milestone for LGBTQ civil rights, is remembered at Christopher Park in the Stonewall National Monument. Historic districts here were designated in 1969, 2003 and 2006.

Sources: West Village (Wikipedia); Stonewall National Monument (National Park Service); History (Friends of the High Line).

Map

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West Village borders three areas, and Washington Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 20 of 162.

Street map of West Village, Manhattan, outlined among Chelsea-Hudson Yards, Greenwich Village and SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, with its five subway stations and James J Walker Park.Chelsea-Hudson YardsGreenwich VillageSoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square
  • West Village
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 8 Av lines L accessible
  • 14 St / 6 Av lines 1 2 3 L accessible
  • Christopher St-Stonewall lines 1
  • W 4 St-Wash Sq lines A B C D E F M accessible
  • Houston St lines 1

Getting around

Five subway stations and buses on 22 routes stop in or at the edge of West Village.

  • 5 subway stations
  • 3 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 11 local bus routes
  • 11 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • L92
  • M7
  • M8
  • M11
  • M12
  • M14A-SBS
  • M14D-SBS
  • M20
  • M21
  • M55
  • T232

Express bus routes

  • SIM1
  • SIM1C
  • SIM3C
  • SIM4C
  • SIM7
  • SIM9
  • SIM33
  • SIM33C
  • SIM34
  • X27
  • X28

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 1,166 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.2 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 12 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 45 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
26
Accessible pedestrian signals
22
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
6
Enhanced crossings
4
Turn calming
3
Safety Improvement Projects
3

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 4,177 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 20,974 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 707 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners
Most red-light tickets
West Street & West Houston Street, 4,177
Most speed tickets
West Street & Leroy Street, 17,918
Most bus-lane tickets
8th Avenue & West 14th Street, 618

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 35,011 residents in West Village, about 67,300 per square mile.

  • 23,750 homes, 2020 Census
  • 245 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,769 residential lots hold buildings from 1866 or earlier, and 93% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
6.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
James J Walker Park (1.7 acres), the High Line (1.2 acres) and Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground (1.1 acres)
Designated landmarks
The F. W. Devoe & Co. Factory, the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building, the American Seamen's Friend Society Sailors' Home and Institute and the Bell Telephone Laboratories Complex, among others
Historic districts
Gansevoort Market, Greenwich Village, Greenwich Village Extension and Weehawken Street, wholly or partly within West Village

Streets and trees

Trees
2,917 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, maidenhair tree and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
Washington Street, with 20 of the area's 162
Height above sea level
From 6 feet at 10th Avenue & Gansevoort Street to 28 feet at West 4th Street & Perry Street
Honorary street names
11 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 11 schools and two libraries in West Village.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
6
Libraries
Hudson Park Library and Jefferson Market Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 20 bike-share stations stand in West Village. The City's public art inventory lists seven works in the area, among them Firemen's Memorial (1834), Abingdon Square Doughboy (1921) and General Philip Henry Sheridan (1936).

  • 20 bike-share stations
  • 7 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 691 major felonies at places in the West Village.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in the West Village

  • 814 major felonies in 2024 123 fewer in 2025
  • 1,255 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of the West Village, the NYPD recorded another 228 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 26.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in the West Village.

Map of the West Village: 9 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in the West Village, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of the West Village, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of the West Village are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for the West Village and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
6th
Major felonies recorded at places in the West Village, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 303 major felonies at places in the West Village, against 289 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.